Railway splice-bar.



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No. 729,388. PATENTBD MAY 26, 1903.

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7 UNITED STATES Patented May 26, 1903.

PATENT ()FFICE.

RAILWAY SPLICE-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,388, dated May 26,1903. Application filed November 28, 1902. Serial No, 132,999. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatLIsAAc O. MOCLASKEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Millvale, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have .invented certain new and useful Improvements inRailway Splice-Bars and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is a splice-bar for railway-rail joints,being of that class requiring no bolts, nuts, &c.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a side elevation of arailway-rail, showing my device aflixedthereto at the junction of two rails.

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of my device, taken on the line 2 2 ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my invention as applied at thejunction of two rails, the said rails being shown by dotted lines. Fig.4is a detached perspective view of one of the clench-bars used by me inmy invention. Fig. -5 is a perspectiveview of the base-wedge used in mydevice.

In the drawings the numeral 1 represents a railway-rail. 3 is the treadof the rail. 4 is the web of the rail, and 5 is the base. 6 is awedge-bar or plate formed to fit in between the lower ends of the twoclench-bars and'the full length of the same. 7 7 are the twoclench-bars, made in shape as seen in Fig. 2 and in length about nineinches. These bars 7 and wedge 6 will be of the same length. 8 is thebase-plate, made in length to correspond with the bars 7 g and wedge 6.lower ends of the bars 7 will be slightly sloped, so as to correspondwith the sloping sides of the wedge 6. g

' The base-plate has the raised side portions 11. (Seen in Fig. 2.)These sides should be The made very strong, so as to resist the lateralpressure they will be subjected to when in position -onthe rail." On theinner sides of these side portions 11 I form the concave surface. (Alsoseen in Fig. 1.) This concavity is to receive the convex side of theclenchbars 7, and when the said bars are in position the upper ends willengage with the web of the rail and the lower ends will engage the wedge6. It will therefore be seen that on forcing the wedge fidownwardagainst the lower ends of the two bars'at 1O 10 the operation will forcethe bars in the concavity of the sides 11 and against the web of therail, so that the greater the weight on the wedge 6 the greater will bethe pressure at the point where the upper ends of the bars 7 pressagainst the web of the rail. In this way my plan of connectingrailway-rails at the-ends by the means shown will dispense with nuts andbolts altogether.

9 9 are bolt or spike holes for fastening the base-plate 8 to the ties.

Having thus described and shown my invention, what I claim, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a railway splice-bar for connecting theends of two rails, thewedge 6 in combination with the clench-bars 7, and the baseplate Shavingthe parts 11; substantially as described and shown.

2. In a railway splice-bar for connecting the ends of two rails, thewedge 6 the base plate 8 having theparts 11; splice-bars 7 and the railsto be connected, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto af= fixed my signature in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ISAAC O. MCCLASKEY.

Witnesses:

J OHN GRAEBI G, J12, GEO. W. BACKOFEN.

